Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died 67 years later a few hundred miles north in New York City. In the intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer. He started with short stories in H.L. Mencken's The Smart Set, the home...
...Then in his fifties, he still served for two years. Yet when he got out, and before he could go back to writing--the Red Scare was here. Hammett was called in front of numerous committees to talk about his Communist activities. He spent 26 weeks in jail once for refusing to cooperate with one such committee and though the sentence was only for contempt of court, the time in prison irrevocably destroyed his health. Then, he was out again, only to be hauled in front of more committees. Hammett had always claimed to be a Marxist and a Socialist...
...Committees could no longer throw him in jail, but they did for all intents and purposes. His livelihood was destroyed by the tax boys, and he spent the rest of his days as a recluse. He kept telling himself he could write again, but there were no jobs and it didn't happen. When he died, the government tried the last ignominy of removing his body from Arlington National Cemetery. Even though he had fought in two wars, the authorities saw him as a disgrace. The attempt didn't work. By the time they got around to it, McCarthy...
...other words, it is not possible that people were detained who carried no weapons and then were later killed while still in jail...
...ultimately running a camp newspaper on the island of Adak in the Aleutians. The postwar climate grew chilly to Hammett's politics. Ordered to testify before a federal judge in 1951, he appeared but refused to cooperate and was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt. When he got out, his income had dried up, and he faced claims for more than $110,000 in back taxes...